NEW MAN - Group Leader Guide

Your Group Doesn't Need One More Self-Improvement Study. They Need Permission to Let Something Die.

No complicated curriculum to build from scratch. No hours of prep before you can lead with confidence. Just five songs, five days, and everything you need to walk your group somewhere real.

FIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS is the complete group leader guide for NEW MAN — built to make leading a music-based journey with your group as simple as pressing play.

Here's How It Works.

Every Monday, a new five-song playlist drops — curated around one theme, sequenced with intention. This guide gives you everything you need to turn that playlist into a complete group experience: full theological foundation, discussion questions that go from surface to soul, experiential activities that make the music tangible, a weekly challenge, and leader guidance for the hard moments.

Pick your format — a single 75-minute session with the full playlist, a deeper position-by-position walkthrough, an activity-led gathering, or your own mix. This guide flexes to your group, not the other way around.

This Week's Theme: NEW MAN.

He didn't ask you to try harder. He asked you to die — so something new could live.

Most of your group has spent years trying to fix the same thing about themselves — recommitting, slipping, recommitting again — convinced the answer was always just a little more discipline, a little more willpower. It wasn't. And most of them have never once considered that the whole strategy was built on the wrong foundation.

This guide moves your group somewhere different. It starts with an honest admission most people have never said out loud in a faith community — that something in their life has quietly been drowning out their attention on God. It moves through what it actually takes to keep choosing change, day after day, once the initial decision has worn off. It reaches the moment their life becomes visible enough that people react — and reframes that reaction as confirmation, not condemnation. It arrives at the hardest, most important turn of the whole week: not another strategy for self-improvement, but an actual death of who they used to be. And it settles into something most people have never let themselves fully feel — rest, with nothing left to prove.

This isn't a study about becoming a better version of yourself. It's the claim that the better version was never available to the old one in the first place — and that trying harder was never going to be the answer.

From an honest admission — to a settled rest with nothing left to prove. That's NEW MAN.

Who This Is For.

Small group leaders who want a real journey for their group, not another fill-in-the-blank study guide.

Youth leaders looking for a music-based way into a conversation teenagers are already having privately.

Anyone leading people who feel stuck in the same recommit-and-fail cycle, convinced the answer is more effort instead of a different foundation entirely.

Leaders who want to go first — this guide only works if you let it do its work on you before you hand it to anyone else.

If you have a group and a willingness to lead honestly, this guide is for you.

What You're Getting.

FIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS: NEW MAN — the complete group leader guide, including:

• Front Matter — a full theological unpacking of the theme, a prayer to pray before you lead, and a complete Quick Start Guide with four ready-to-use session formats
• Foundation — the complete arc, position by position, with real lyric analysis, theological depth, and a personal reflection on why this theme matters
• The Journey — all five positions, each with a song, scripture, teaching, discussion questions, and a hands-on activity
• Bringing It All Together — leader notes for every position, a full closing discussion, this week's challenge, a simple daily practice rhythm, guidance for hard moments in the room, and a personal word from JDOT
• Reference Materials — complete scripture index, further reading, and what's next for your group
• Four appendixes — a printable song sheet, 30+ discussion questions organized by depth, five experiential activities with prayer alternatives, and a full scripture reference index with a memory verse card

Playlist Access — Spotify and Apple Music links for the full arc and every individual song.

Everything is written. All you have to do is show up and lead.

This Comes From a Life, Not a Curriculum Department.

On May 13, 2021, JDOT Pine died. Jesus sent him back with five words:

"There's still so much for you to do."

He came back to a calling that made no sense in a body already failing. Primary Progressive Aphasia — a condition that slowly takes language from a man whose entire ministry runs on it.

JDOT knows what it means to keep trying to manage something instead of believing it could actually be finished. He knows the specific exhaustion of recommitting to the same fight, over and over, with no end in sight. And he knows, from the inside, what it costs — and what it produces — to finally stop managing and let something die.

This guide isn't written from a safe distance. It's written from inside the same arc it's asking your group to walk.

The Investment.

$29

Five days. One arc. A complete leader guide built to go deeper than a borrowed curriculum, deeper than a generic small-group workbook — real theology, real questions, real change.

No subscriptions. No hidden costs. Instant download.

Want something different?

Not every leader needs the full group guide. These might fit better:

• FIVE DAYS with The JDOT Five: PERSONAL — the individual devotional journey through this exact arc, for one person walking it alone. $14.
• THE JDOT FIVE TEXT CIRCLE — a done-for-you, 7-day text-based group experience. The lowest-barrier way to lead a few friends through NEW MAN without any prep at all. $9.

Start with ESSENTIALS if you're leading a real group session. Go lighter if you're not.

👇 Get FIVE DAYS ESSENTIALS: NEW MAN Now

Five days. Five songs. One group, led somewhere real.

Crucified. Reborn.

Press play. Let it change something.

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